Filmmaker David Lynch, who recently walked off the set of the Twin Peaks reboot, is in Brisbane, Australia to promote his art exhibition, David Lynch: Between Two Worlds at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (March 14-June7). At a press conference he addressed the “pathetic tendency of government to cut funding to the arts.” Lynch, by the way, doesn’t consider graffiti an art. Quite the contrary. He said: “graffiti is ruining the world and making our planet ugly.”
“Graffiti to me has pretty much ruined the world. It’s ruined it for film. When you go to a place to film, everything is graffitied so if you don’t want it, you have to paint it out,” he said. “So much great architecture is graffitied over, so many great train stations, factories, are graffitied over and it’s a horrible, horrible thing. Trees have gone away and graffiti has taken their place.”
